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ICC Open: final countdown!

Congratulations to IM Cemil Can Ali Marandi (Last7Samurai)!

After a month of amazing battles to determine the 24 finalists, the ICC Open approaches its epilogue.
On Saturday, April the 22nd, at 2 PM EDT (20:00 Europe - 19:00 UK), a mega-knockout tournament will decide the fab four, who will fight for the title on Sunday, April the 23rd, again at 2 PM EDT.

The qualifier tournaments have seen the participation of hundreds of players, from top GMs to many amateurs, who enjoyed measuring themselves in the most important online blitz tournament of the year.
The 24 strong blitzers who won the qualifiers will be joined by 8 seeded players, chosen by the ICC, to complete the list of 32 gladiators, ready to fight into the KO arena.
Here's the list with of the 8 seeded players:Alexander Grischuk (RUS), Liren Ding (CHN), Leinier Dominguez Perez (CUB), Samuel Sevian (USA), Jeffery Xiong (USA), Timur Gareev (USA), Rauf Mamedov (AZE), and Anton Demchenko (RUS).
Grischuk, the defending champion, and Ding, the strongest Chinese player at the moment, are among the favorites, but it's Blitz, and we know that everything can happen.
Super-strong Blitz players such as Daniil Dubov, Eltaj Safarli, Vladislav Artemiev, and many others, who fought their way to the finals through the qualifiers, will not make the top-seeded life easy!

The 32-player knockout tournament consists of mini-matches of 4 games with time control 3+0 (3 minutes to finish the game, without increment).
If a tie occurs after that, two more games will be played. If still tied, another two games follow, and in case it goes to 4-4 then the tournament director will determine colors in a single, decisive game to follow by tossing a coin. Should that game be drawn, another game with opposite colors will be played. If drawn again, the procedure will be repeated.

GM Eric Hansen is ready to make this event even more entertaining for everyone, with his live commentary on ICC YouTube channel!